Horacio Quiroga, an Uncommon card

Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza was a Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer.
From the Wikipedia article

Rarity: Uncommon
Domain: Arts
ATK: 66
DEF: 40
Power: 106
Wikipedia reads a year: 25,000

Power 106 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.

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The facts on the card

The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.

The jungle settings of his stories emphasized the conflict between humans and nature.
His portrayals of mental illness and hallucinatory states were influenced by Edgar Allan Poe.
In turn, Quiroga influenced Gabriel García Márquez and Julio Cortázar.

Why it is Uncommon

Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Horacio Quiroga article was read about 25,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 40: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.

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Credits

Text : Wikipedia, Horacio Quiroga (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.